As always it's never too early to plan, and I thought I'd like to ask what other people have experienced and plan a trip one day or to relocate to the States.

My word. I keep hearing the earthquake stuff from non-Californians and let me just tell you I'd take an earthquake any day of the week over a tornado, a hurricane, a flash flood, and a good ol' Mid-western storm.

I've been in all of them and with an earthquake, if you die, you die. But with the rest, if you survive, you have to deal with everything being broken, insurance companies, possibly being homeless, etc.

Earthquakes aren't that bad and you're a heck of a lot more likely to win the lottery than die in an earthquake.

After all, that horrible, terrible, infamous earthquake in 1989 that caused so much damage and misery where the Bay Bridge collapsed - 1 person died. One. Uno. Une. Ichi. That's it. One person.

So don't worry about California. It's safe. I had a Geology Professor in college who used to say "whatever you do, don't buy land in California because 95 million years from now, the Californian plate will be under Alaska."

Weather is great here. It's Winter and I got a t-shirt on. Politics on the other hand...

"zombieslayer" wrote:

A couple of questions to try an truly answer your question personally..

I agree with you Zombie! I have been through some earth quakes now, the highest one being 5.5 that one I definitely felt, pictures on my wall swaying back and forth, but before you realize what is going on, its over with. I don't ever want to experience a bigger one, but I look at life, what is meant happen in ones life will happen you cannot be worried or scared, take each day and cherish it. California is a beautiful place, one thing that I love is it might get hot during the day but you always have cooler weather in the evenings so you can always get a good night sleep, also there is no mosquitoes here. :)

"Heatherthepackgirl" wrote: